I find this amazing

[Guilect]

Ok, what this screenshot is is of a website that is hosting a crack for Brutus2D.

I am amused by this.

Most of the functionality of Brutus2D is Freeware.
The full version is only $10.
Yet someone probaly spent an hour or more to write a crack for it.
That is just sad.
Dude get a life.

I have not run the crack, and I suggest that you do not try to either as it is probably infected.
The software seems to made in BlitzMax then compressed using UPX. The uncompressed BlitzMax file is over 1 Meg in size, which is typical for anyone who does not know how to effectively use BMax as the default is to include all of it modules; thus the need for the compression via UPX.

If you look closely at the names of the 7 people that thanked the guy that wrote and posted the crack, you will see one familiar name there : sfbm

There is a recent member here by that name.

Now in all fairness it might not be the same person. (but I think there is a high probability).
Also he did buy a copy of Brutus2D.
Just curious if he paid for it to see how it gets activated so as to make a crack for it...
I did receive a couple of e-mails from him, and he seemed nice.

Perhaps he is just a vistor to that crack site and had nothing to do with making or using of the crack himself. Don't know. I just know that I don't care for the whole deal.

It is the coder of the crack that deserves the full wrath of the community.

Just typing my train of thought.
Perhaps if I were to type this tomorrow, it would have a different tone to it.

Regarding B2D:
My first thought was to delete the download link for B2D so as to stop anyone else from getting the freeware version and then cracking it.

So instead of supporting the programmers that are making software that these guys like to use , the crackers get a piece of software taken off the market. Good job guys.

My next thought was to make a seperate exe which is just the freeware version, so no crack could work. But, with filesharing sites so prevelent it would only be a matter of time before there would be a link to the full version on rapidshare.

Lastly, and most likely, is to do nothing and leave things the way that they are.

So, what to do...
(and I mean with Brutus2D)
(don't worry about the hackers, it will all come out even in the end, i assure you).

[matthew]

Perhaps you should see the fact that Brutus2D has been cracked as a compliment. ;D

If it was an irrelevant piece of software they probably wouldn't have bothered.

[Guilect]

Oh boy, I have made the big league.
How many people can say that they have made software that someone else has wasted their time on cracking.

[sfbm]

I've Just Sent A E-Mail To Guilect About This Matter. This Is My Alias But It Has Been Used Without My Knowledge, I Was Foolish Enough To Make My Laptop Available To A Colleague Who Has Taken Advantage Of My Some What Naive Trust (Not Just With Using My Alias But Also Accessing My PayPal Account), I Can Only Apologise And State That This Crack Was Nothing To Do With Me.

[Guilect]

sfbm,
sorry to hear about your laptop and paypal troubles.
I believe that you had nothing to do with the crack.

Every once and a while I'll put "Brutus2D" in the search engines just to see where it turns up.
Yesterday, when I wrote the message above, I was a little taken aback that a crack had been posted.

Today, I am back to my self and have moved on.
Let us all move on and enjoy making games.

Cheers.

[Otringal]

d**n why crack it I mean crack a piece of software that's worth 5000$ and ONLY to learn things from it, not to make money and stuff ... but geez this costs only ten bucks ... I mean this is the BEAUTY of it : you can have a full license to a game programming language for ONLY 9.99$ ;D anyway, Guliect, there is nothing u can do as the internet is well ... big so once it has begun, it's like wanting to stop a plague from spreading and don't worry as there is NO CRACKED version whatsoever on eMule, Torrents, Warez, etc. ( just did a checkup ) and I am very happy to be the first one to post in here this year !!! YAY